Anatomy of Hunger

Anatomy of Hunger explores hunger as a metaphor for the contemporary cycle of desire and consumption. Rather than depicting food directly, the work approaches hunger as a psychological, social, and visual force. It reflects a world in which consumption is no longer limited to material objects, but extends to images, experiences, identities, emotions, relationships, work, social media, and the constant pressure to absorb more.

The work is structured as a loop: hunger gives rise to desire, desire leads to consumption, consumption produces transformation, and transformation returns the body to a new state of hunger. This cyclical structure is essential to the installation. There is no final satisfaction, no resolution, and no stable identity outside the process. The figure that consumes is gradually absorbed into what it consumes.

Created through generative AI workflows, image-based iteration, video synthesis, editing, and sound design, the work treats artificial intelligence not as a neutral tool, but as a synthetic partner in the formation of visual worlds. The resulting imagery does not document an existing reality. It constructs a speculative anatomy of appetite: a synthetic ecosystem in which bodies, textures, surfaces, and desires are continuously reorganized.

In this sense, Anatomy of Hunger can be read as a visual allegory of contemporary media culture. It speaks about a state in which the subject is shaped by what it consumes, while the consumed object is itself transformed by the act of being desired.